August 2014 Archives

Please don't use ::Tiny unless it meets the ::Tiny criteria, thanks!

Don’t get me wrong, I really, really, really appreciate effort put into making something as small and efficient as possible.

However, it seems like we have a recent trend of using ::Tiny for things that do not meet the actual criteria of ::Tiny.

That is bad because seeing ::Tiny gives a certain expectation that, when not met, could be surprising, even bad.

Just because it is way less bloaty than something, like say, Moose: still not necessarily “::Tiny”.

Here are the rules Adam Kennedy originally defined for what ::Tiny means:

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